Improved oil-stone fountain



AJTENT ENCE,

JAMES FUNK, 0F V'ERLY, ILLINOIS.

lMPPtOVED OIL-STONE FOUNTAIN.

Specification forming part of Let-ters Patent No. 423GB, dated April 19,1864.

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, J AMES FUNK, of Beverly, in the count-y of Adams andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful OilFountain Attachmentfor Oil-Stones; and l. do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to theaccompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the linewir, Eig. 2; Fig. 2,` a plan or top view of the same with the cover Aofthe oil-fountain removed; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section of thesame, taken in the line g/ y, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate correl spending parts in theseveral figures. i

This invention consists in combining an oilfountain with an oil-stone insuch a manner that the stone can be readily supplied with oil at anytime as required, While at the same time the two'combined articles willnot exceed much, if any, the dimensions of an ordinary cased oil-stoneprovided with a lid or cover.

The object of the invention is to dispense with the usual oilcan nowused by joiners and other mechanics for supplying stones with oil bycombining the can with the stone, thereby saving the trouble of carryinga detached oil-can in a tool-box, which monopolizes some room, and alsosaving the room or l or space now occupied by such article on thework-bench.

To enable those skilled in the art to -fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents an oil-stone, which is itted in a stock, B, of wood orother proper material, provided with a lid or cover, U, which may beattached to B by means of hinges a.

Within the lid or cover C there is inserted a box, D, which may beconstructed of sheet metal and of rectangular form, and of suchdimensions as to extend the greater portion of the length of the coverand to project a trifle above it, and to be nearly equal in width to thecover. Thel upper edge of this box D is provided with a ange, b, whichextends all around it at right angles to its sides and ends to receivethe screws e of the lid or cover d of the box, a suitable packing beinginterposed between the'iiange b and the lid or cover, to prevent theescape of oil from the box D, the latter being an oil-fountain.

rThe box D is not permanently iitted in the lid or cover C. It simplyrests upon cleats e, the mortise or' hole which is made in O to receivethe box D extending entirely through the former, and to each side of thebox D there is attached a spring laver-catch, E, which, when the box Dis inserted in C, catch under rods f j' in the sides of the latter andsecure D in C, (see Fig. 3,) the box being lreadily withdrawn from C atany time by pressing inward ortoward the box D the upper ends of thecatches E E. v

The bottom of the box D from the sides and ends of the latterisinclined, as shown at g, a horizontal part, h, being allowed at thecenter of the bottom, and through this horizontal part h two smallholes, i fi', are made, and a hole, j, is made through the lid d. Thehole t" in the bottom and the hole j in the lid may be in the samevertical line.

F is a shaft, which is fitted transversely in the upper part of the boxD, one end of said shaft being fitted in a bearing, k, at the innersurface ot' the box, at one side, and the other end passing through theopposite side of the box and having a thumb-wheel, Gr, upon it. Theshaft F has two collars, l I, placed upon it-one at the outer and theother at the inner side of the box-said collars being secured. inposition by set-screws, and having packing interposed between them andthe side of the box, to prevent the escape of oil. On this shaft F thereis fitted a wheel, G, which is provided with teeth m, having one sidebeveled, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

H represents a vertical plate, which has a journal, n, at its lower end,said journal being stepped at o, at the center of the horizontal part,h, of the bottom of the box, the upper end of said plate being providedwith a journal, p, which works in across-piece, g, at the upper part ofthe box D. rlhis plate H has a projection, r, extending out laterallyfrom it and provided with an upper beveled surface, against which theteeth m of the wheel G act. The plate H has a spiral spring, I, attachedto it, which spring has a tendency to keep the plate H in contact withthe wheel G.

The shaft F passes through a hole, s,in the plate H, said hole beingsufficiently largeso as not to admit of the shaft F interfering with themovement of the plate H.

At one end of the plate H there is a vertical tube, I, in which arod, t,is fitted loosely and bears against a spiral spring. The rod t has adisk or head at its lower end, said disk or head being covered withcork, w, or other suitable material, to serve as a stopper for the holei in the bottom of the box D, the spring keeping the cork w pressed downupon h. A similar tube, J, is at the opposite end of the plate H, andsaid tubeJ is provided with ahead, a', both atits top an dbottom, theheads c being also covered with cork, b, which are pressed, the lowerone by a spring, u, down over the hole t" in the part h of the bottom ofthe box, and the other pressed over the hole j in the lid d of the boxI).

The holes i, i', and j are all covered by the corks fw b b' where theplate H bears against `the wheel G, and when the stone requires to beoiled the shaft Fis turned so that the teeth m will act against theprojection 1' of plate H, and move said plate so that the corks w b' bwill be shoved oft' from the holes z i j, and oil allowed to escapethrough the holes it" upon the stone, air being admitted into box Dthrough the'hole j, to allow the oil to escape through the holesz i. Theshaft F may be rotated any number of times until a sufficient quantityof oil is deposited upon the stone, and in case the oil should becomethick in cold weather, so as to prevent its free ilow from the box D,the latter may be readily removed from the lid or cover C and placednear-a stove, so as to warm and render the oil fluid.

I would remark that one of the holes, fior i', may be provided with aslide or valve, ax, so that one of said holes may be cut o' or closedwhen only one is required to be open.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

l. The employment or use, with an oil-stone, of an oilffouutain providedwith valves and placed in the lid or cover of the case of the oil-stone,to admit of the stone being supplied with oil from the fountain,substantially as herein set forth.

2. The vibratin g plate H, provided with the yielding heads covered withcork or other` suitable material, in combination with the yrevolvingtoothed wheel G and the holes i, i', and

j, made, respectively, in the bottom and top of the oil-fountain, allarranged to operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose

